Tag Archives: Pygmalion

The Classics as Teen Survival Guides

By Robin Bates | Published: September 21, 2021

Vietnamese immigrant Phuc Tran uses various classics to survive American adolescence.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged adolescence, assimilation, Franz Kafka, George Bernard Shaw, great books, Gustave Flaubert, Homer, Iliad, immigrants, Madame Bovary, Metamorphosis | Comments closed

Verbal Combat Trumps Soft Romance

By Robin Bates | Published: November 11, 2019

Shaw contributed some great plays to the feuding couples comedy genre, including Man and Superman and Pygmalion.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Aphra Behn, C. S. Lewis, feuding couples comedy, George Bernard Shaw, Horse and His Boy, Man and Superman, Marriage, Much Ado about Nothing, Rover, Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Couples Fighting: It Must Be Love

By Robin Bates | Published: June 10, 2019

Tuesday I read plays all day yesterday with an eye toward an upcoming class on “Battling Couples in Theatre and Film (the Comic Version).” The September course is part of Sewanee’s “Lifelong Learning” series. As the course runs for four weeks, I will teach four plays and four movies, pairing a play with a film […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Aphra Behn, couples comedy, Edward Albee, George Bernard Shaw, His Girl Friday, It Happened One Night, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Much Ado about Nothing, Pillow Talk, Romantic Comedy, Rover, screwball comedy, Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Unemployment & “the Undeserving Poor”

By Robin Bates | Published: December 27, 2013

Are those who will lose unemployment insurance tomorrow deserving or undeserving of support? George Bernard Shaw has something to say about that.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged George Bernard Shaw, poverty, Rand Paul, unemployment insurance | Comments closed